20" Eye-Catching, Cut & Polished Ammonite Fossil Round End Table

Eye-Catching, Cut & Polished Ammonite Fossil Round End Table #280277

This is a unique, eye-catching coffee table made from real, cut & polished ammonite fossils. The 110 million year old ammonite fossils have been cut in half to reveal their inner chambers and mounted in epoxy to create the solid tabletop. The calcite replaced ammonite fossils are quite striking with their varying color combinations.

The table top itself measures 20" in diameter and weighs just over 18 1/2 lbs.

Ammonites were predatory cephalopod mollusks that resembled squids with spiral shells. They are more closely related to living octopuses, though their shells resemble that of nautilus species. True ammonites appeared in the fossil record about 240 million years ago during the Triassic Period. The last lineages disappeared 65 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous.

What an ammonite would have looked like while alive.